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Deep Peace Farm is a private farm home to a wise herd of horses who work with select clients through

07/10/2021

"Having a boundary isn't about keeping others out as much as it is about keeping ourselves in." - Mark Wolynn

07/07/2021

Attuning Your Horse Body — An exercise with or without a horse.

As you stand with the horse, or the herd, (or with yourself in your office herd), or alone with your self notice the following:

How are you?
How do you hold yourself in your body? Do your insides and outsides match?
What do you feel in your body? Where is it and what does it feel like? What might it remind you of?
What emotion would you ascribe to your inner state?
What face are you presenting to the world?
How do you feel in your body in relation to others and the world around you? What feels too close? What would you like to move closer to? How does it feel to be right where you are now?
How safe do you feel?
Where is your foundation?
How is your breathing?
What do your toes feel like?
What’s in your heart?
How does it feel to take all of this in? What is happening in your body? What feelings are you feeling?
What do you sense about what’s emerging?

07/04/2021

Unfinished Poem
I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

― John O'Donohue

07/01/2021

One thing we know about the leaders of the herd is that they know how to meet each member of the herd and be in a way that allows that member to find what inner resources they need to show up as secure herd-mates. Your ability to do so as a human leader depends on the depth of your inner work and awareness of your shadow.

A leader’s well-honed, real and vulnerable presence allows them to be present for their herd mates (or office mates). They are able to listen to them and be with them in a way that lets them know that they matter. With your stuff accounted for and included, it doesn’t get in the way of another person’s experience. And, you can be better equipped to not take on something that is not yours that might be showing up in the space between you.

06/28/2021

The Journey
By Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voice behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life that you could save.

06/25/2021

Horses are extremely sensitive and attuned to the subtlest shifts in each other and their environment. They can feel a fly land on them, and they know what is happening in a half-mile radius surrounding them. Their hooves, while hard and durable, are very alive. Hoof tissues are filled with blood from arteries that run from the heart down their legs. Like a drum skin, they feel the vibration of the earth. Horses can also feel each other and what each other is feeling. This means they can feel you, too.

The way horses sense and respond to congruence and incongruence in their environment is the same way they can feel the congruence and incongruence in the humans in the herd with them. For a horse, it’s not safe to trust incongruence.

Congruence is when your insides true-up with your outside, or the face you put on for the world to see. When your heart and your outside face match, you’ve found congruence. This might feel new, this might feel like vulnerability, but this might also feel like who you really are.

What tensions are you holding? What sadness? What anger? What joys? What fears? What memories are present now, holding you back from experiencing life fully? Whatever is there: include it. It belongs and has a place, and there’s no place it can hide. In so doing, you become more congruent with yourself, and therefore able to be in rapport with others with a sense of clarity for them.

06/24/2021

"The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos

06/04/2021

Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz

06/01/2021

A horse will want to know, or have a conversation about: What is our awareness of the larger environment? Do we feel safe here? Do you understand me? Are we able to attune to where they are and what they might need based on what they value? How do we respect their space by also being crystal clear about our space? Is it clear what roles each of us has? Who’s doing what, who’s leading and who’s following, and who decides where to go?

(This may also sound a bit like any good, clear meeting in any office on any day of the workweek.)

05/29/2021

“In dreams, mythical stories, and lore one universal symbol for the human body and its instinctual nature is the horse.” — Peter Levine

Our way of being can create a sense of safety, relief, grounding for the nervous system of the herd, or it can create mistrust, anxiety, and tension. One of the factors that supports safety and connection is clarity around boundaries. Respect for our boundaries and the boundaries of another lends itself to the psychological safety of the group. Knowing where our boundary is lets the herd know where we are, and from there conversations about role, responsibility, who’s leading, and who’s following can take place.

For horses and the bubbles of space, their perceptive worldview is oriented to, space is more important than touch. Respecting this space is important to them. Crowding their space with your body such as being too close to them or touching them before mutual respect and rapport have been established is like being with someone who has no boundaries physically and psychically. It’s an invasion of space to enter before invited. As a prey animal, unwelcome touch feels violating. Their bodies are their lifeline.

Clarity around one’s boundary, as a horse, is necessary for their safety and survival. It also informs how they can be together (or how they can be together moving fast to avoid a predator). When we are with horses, they are looking at us not only to see if they can be safe with us but to know where we are. They need to know where our boundary is so that they know where we are and how to be with us. The more clear we can be about ourselves — how we feel, what’s in our heart, and where our energy is going — the better of a herd member (or leader) we can be.
Presence begins in the body. Knowing your boundary begins in the body.

What is your relationship with your body?

05/26/2021

“Let’s redefine leadership as the one who breathes and smiles the most: Let an inhale relax your body, let an exhale leave soft shoulders and a soft belly. Let a smile give you a soft jaw.” — Anna Blake

How you approach the horse is where the relationship begins. Everything you do builds rapport (or not). Your approach says so much about your fit as a potential leader for the horse. Your presence precedes you. Notice what you most naturally do when approaching. How you do anything is how you do everything. How is your breathing? What are you thinking? What are you feeling? What are you afraid of? How is your heart?

What would you say about your presence? What do the people around you say about your presence? What would a horse say about your presence?

Horses are looking for leadership, not dominion. We can offer that to them in our way of being present with them. Are we worthy of being a leader of vulnerable beings? Are we able to know what the herd needs to assure safety and connection? How are our presence and attention? If we check in with ourselves, are we congruent with where we are? Are we able to be present for an other? How is our breathing (is it indicative of relaxation and safety, or are we panting or holding our breath)?

05/23/2021

things. that should be asked
often. in every type. of
relationship:
how is your heart.
is your breath happy. here.
do you feel free.

- Nayyirah Waheed

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